BlackBerry Visor Mount Bluetooth Speakerphone

by BlackBerry

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 0.6 x 4.8 inches ; 5.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B002GYVJMQ
• Item model number: VM605
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,353 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

The BlackBerry Visor Mount Speakerphone VM-605 is a hands free Bluetooth speakerphone from RIM. Enjoy your calls and your favorite music from your BlackBerry smartphone with the convenience and sound quality of your car's FM stereo system. It's easy to use. Just clip it to your car's visor, turn it on, and you're ready to start making and taking hands free calls on the go. And because it supports voice activated dialing, caller ID, and verbal notifications to let you know who's calling, you can stay in touch while keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.

Customer Reviews

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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Bluetooth Visor Clip I have EVER used!, July 28, 2009

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Tarun Chachra "Tarun Chachra" (Hillsborough, NJ) - See all my reviews
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Yes, I am a Blackberry Fan Boy and thus I trust pretty much everything they make..the exception being the STORM. :-) Research in Motion recently released this device and I figured it was time to get one and give it a shot. I was finally getting fed-up of something stuck in my ear all of the time so I could talk while on the road. I live in the Tri-State area, NY-NJ-CT and drive about 4 hours a day, therefore making Bluetooth a necessity.

And now for the review:

Box Includes: Visor Clip, Car Charger (Micro USB), and documentation in English, Spanish, and French.

**Quick Note: This device also utilizes Micro-USB as do most new smart phones in the market today. It is the new standard for cell phone chargers and thus will eliminate a lot of redundant chargers in our homes, offices, and cars.

Simply charge the device over night so that it is good and ready to go for your usage. Once charged, turn it on and pair it with your blackberry device...the instructions are quite simple. The pairing process complete, you are ready to clip this in your cars visor and begin the process of becoming a road warrior.

The Visor Mount actually gives you a few language options, as follows:

US English

UK English

French

Italian

German

Spanish

Mexican Spanish

Brazilian Portuguese, and

Chinese.

Why do you need all of these options? Simply because the Visor mount actually has a voice feedback system that provides you various bits of information. It will announce an incoming call (with the number, it will give you its status (power on, power off, pairing mode, etc).

The design of this device is slick as could be and the voice quality is quite impressive...even while driving about 65+ miles per hour on a highway with the air conditioning running...(yes its been hot in NY/NJ). I made quite a few test calls and specifically asked the party on the other line about noise and quality...they said, and I quote, "You are in a CAR?". The speaker is quite loud and can be adjusted to your liking with a volume rocker panel on the right hand side of the device.

This device works and it works quite perfectly.

Now for the most interesting feature, an FM Transmitter. Current Blackberry models all have the ability to accept micro-sd cards up to about 16gb. You are able to get free software to sync your iTunes libraries to your Blackberry...as long as the content is DRM free. Once the music is on the unit you can play it back through headphones and or Bluetooth devices. The Visor Clip takes this whole process one step further...yes it will play back the content on itself or allow you to press the FM button on the left hand side and select a frequency to tune in on your car stereo. Voila, your blackberry is now broadcasting through your car stereo. This also works for phone calls... AWESOME! Impressed yet...? There is more, when you live in a congested area it is sometimes hard to find a FM frequency that works well with transmitters (we all know they are not great). Simply press and hold the FM button on the Visor and it will scan and announce a free frequency it finds on FM...tune your radio and you are set to go.

Battery Life: I have been using it for 2 days with moderate call volume and some music for testing purposes. It is still working...it does have somewhat of a battery meter on it. But real life usage will vary for everyone and thus you will have to make your own decision about how long it works for you and when it needs a charge. It comes with a car charger..so its not too much of an issue. :-)

This is the best visor clip I have ever used and I am glad I decided to get one. 5/5 for a great product at a great price. My ear has been FREED at last!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best voice quality for my Pearl, December 23, 2009

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S. Payne (Santa Fe) - See all my reviews
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Maybe a problem with my Pearl but this is the first BT HF I've used with my Pearl that doesn't have people on the other end constantly saying: "Huh?"...

I've tried Moto T505, T305, HF850, Jabra SP700, BlueAnt ST Light and ST3, Movon MK20, Bury System 8, and at least one from Parrot and a couple others I can't remember. Each had characteristics I liked, but NONE were adequately clear to the person on the other end. The VM-605 is reported to sound BETTER than talking directly through my Pearl. This is used mostly in a PowerStroke diesel Ford pickup. The diesel cackle seems to befuddle microphones. ;) The VM-605 handles that diesel background noise superbly.

All is not perfection with the VM605, however. I got spoiled by the sound quality and functionality of an old Kyocera 3035 pro-installed car kit. For years, I'd simply snap the Kyocera into its cradle and it just plain worked. Snap it out to take it with me when leaving the truck and it's disconnected. Simple. Reliable. Brainless.

Bluetooth devices, in contrast, must connect and be manually DISconnected when leaving the vehicle. Unless you venture beyond Bluetooth range, the silly thing will remain connected to the phone and incoming calls will ring inside the vehicle and customers will wonder why you're not answering the phone. This is particularly obnoxious when parking the vehicle just outside of a motel room and forgetting to shut the BT HF down and the wife rings all night wondering why I'm not answering... ;) This is true of virtually all of the Bluetooth handsfree solutions and is not meant to pick on the VM605. BlueAnt's ST 3 does an admirable job of automatically connecting and DISconnecting but the ST3 simply didn't have usable sound quality at the other end through my Pearl.

Adding insult to the disconnect process is the 4 second push and hold required to shut down the VM605. 4 seconds seems insignificant to the guy sitting at his desk designing these things, but it's an irritation that a simple toggle switch could mostly eliminate. Especially when getting in and out of the truck a dozen times a day.

ALL of these visor mount "kits" are a pain when the sun is in your eyes and you must adjust the visor and still talk. I Velcro'd the VM605 to the driver's side windshield pillar and it works fine there. A charging cable routed along the pillar keeps it charged. Charging of any of these solutions is simply NOT practical, or even safe, while hanging on the visor. The wire visor clip got the job done, when I used it, but BlueAnt's magnetic visor clip worked way better when the visor had to be flipped over to block the sun.

The FM transmitter is great for music, but I just don't like the things for phone conversation. Like all of these "talk over FM" speakerphones, you never know if the stereo is on, or on the right station, or IF you're going to be able to hear the other party. They CAN hear you while you're fighting (and cussing ;)) with the stereo trying to get the caller's voice over it. Then, DON'T pull over and shut the engine off while talking over the stereo... at least if you care to continue the conversation. AHRG! Do ANY of these designers use this stuff? Again, the VM605 is no worse than any of the others in that regard. The VM605 shuts off the voice over stereo after 60 seconds of inactivity. For better AND worse. Depending on mood... ;) Overall, though, the VM605 functionality is very predictable and mostly intuitive. A solid tool.

Pros: VOICE QUALITY. Especially at the other end. Easy connect. Music over the stereo is reasonable (Jabra SP700 was best at that, IMO).

Cons: That blasted 4 seconds required to shut the thing down!!! !!! ;)

I'd REALLY like to morph the voice quality of the VM605 with the automatic disconnect functionality of the ST3. That'd get CLOSE to the functionality of the old snap in Kyocera.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but still needs work, August 3, 2009

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PG (San Diego) - See all my reviews

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I bought this thing because, well, it sounded cool. I can add the fanciness of having my phone go through the radio without having to tear up my dash like you would for a Parrot, and without having to buy a new car.

Now dont get me wrong....this thing connects to the phone no problem (I am using a blackberry bold) and the internal speaker is suppurb. I would give that alone 5 stars. It is crystal clear, on both ends of the call. And really that is the meat and potatos of this device.

But what made me buy it is the FM modulator utility. I will be honest, when I got this thing Friday and hooked it up I was so excited. And it seemd to work really well. Scrolls the number of the person calling on the radio. Switched to music seamlessly. It was nice. But now its been 3 days of use. And here is what I have noticed:

1) It will drop the FM signal if there is no use happening for 1 minute

2) Because of 1) above, when someone calls you, by the time you hit the FM modulator button and turn the radio to the station, i will bet you that you missed the call. Because that what happened to me everytime. So really it is only good if YOU initiate the call.

3) Signal is inconsistant. Sometimes its cyrstal clear. Sometimes there is so much static it is unusable. I found myself, on an 18 mile drive, constantly searching for a new radio frequency to be clear. I can imagine if you live in a bigger city, this is impossible to do/find.

4) The info announcements via RDS on the radio screen are also inconsistant. Sometimes it would scroll the number across of the person who is dialing. And most of the time it would not.

Maybe there is some trick I am missing. Or maybe a specific sequence of steps i need to do everytime i get in the car for this to work, but until i figure that out, I am not that impressed.

But again, if you ignore the FM problems and just use its built in speaker, this thing is pretty good.